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Tammy Diethelm has seen a lot of changes in her 43 years driving a school bus in the Eastern Carver County school district.
She watched many of the district s schools get built and navigated the bus over gravel roads before they were paved. She witnessed children grow from wide-eyed kindergartners into high school graduates.
But the COVID-19 pandemic, she said, has resulted in some of the biggest and most difficult changes of all. It s put a big damper on a lot of things, Diethelm said. Kids don t get as close to you anymore. You don t do the high-fives anymore. A lot of them now don t even want to say good morning to you.